Often, with a Plot or within Manipulate I want to display a graph and, in close proximity to it, a table showing the results of relevant computations. The quickest way to do this is with GraphicsColumn, but that always seems to create cells of identical height and width, which is usually not what I want. Here is a trivial example:

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